On Tuesday, The New York Times tweeted this:
“The New York Times needs your help. We’re looking for false information being spread deliberately to confuse, mislead, or influence voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.”
The New York Times needs your help. We’re looking for false information being spread deliberately to confuse, mislead, or influence voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. https://t.co/p3eeW5fnGm
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 18, 2018
It was an interesting tweet, and it will certainly backfire on them – if it hasn’t already.
The tweet came a day after the newspaper was caught reporting some fake news.
The Gray Old Lady reported that a high school classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh remembered the party where the judge allegedly sexually assaulted a woman more than three decades ago. It reported in an article titled “Kavanaugh’s Accuser Has Yet to Confirm Appearance at Monday Hearings“:
“One possible witness is a friend of Judge Kavanaugh’s, Mark Judge, who Dr. Blasey said was in the room with Judge Kavanaugh when the assault occurred. Mr. Judge had told the Judiciary Committee that he does remember the episode and has nothing more to say, seemingly foreclosing the possibility of an additional witness interview, at least for now.”
It then changed the title to “Christine Blasey Ford Wants F.B.I. to Investigate Kavanaugh Before She Testifies” and included this paragraph:
“Another potential witness, Mark Judge, a friend of Judge Kavanaugh’s who Dr. Blasey said was in the room when the assault occurred, told the Judiciary Committee he does not remember it. ‘I never saw Brett act in the manner Dr. Ford describes,’ he said in a statement sent by his lawyers, adding that ‘I do not wish to speak publicly’ about the matter.”
Talk about spreading “false information” to “mislead” voters.
This isn’t the first time the newspaper was caught selling some fake news.
From The Daily Wire:
In July 2017, the Times published a widely-condemned scurrilous editorial reiterating a long-debunked conspiracy theory suggesting that a map published by Sarah Palin’s PAC listing electoral districts caused Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in 2011.
In May 2018, the Times understated the number of people at a Trump rally in Nashville, Tennessee, saying there were 1,000 people when there were reportedly between 5,000-8,000 people there. In July 2018, the Times was caught after repeating a reportedly false claim from 1987 that Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben Gurion, wanted Israel to give up land it had conquered in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Most recently, last week the Times published a piece that elicited outrage against U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley titled “Nikki Haley’s View of New York Is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701.”
Shame.
Leave a Comment